re: Problems in WIN 98SE
Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 5:23 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave A.
(46 messages posted)
Now I need to know the HP Pavilion model number of that computer that the motherboard
was installed in. I was on HP's drivers page and they want the model number of the
computer, not the motherboard's, to search for drivers. Can you interpret the numbers
on that list I posted and let me know? Thanks.
On Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm, C K wrote:
>No Intel drivers then.. Keep them far away from the board. You need the drivers
>for the board, or more specifically the driver disk or operating system disc for
>the motherboard, which would have come from HP. If you didn't originally have
an
>HP machine, then you shouldn't have an HP board in it. If it is an HP machine,
then
>you need the discs that came with the motherboard, or download WIn 98 drivers "IF"
>HP supports Win 98 on that motherboard. That was/is a replacement for an HP machine,
>and as such, is modified for HP so some drivers may be different. Most of the time
>no, but sometimes yes. You can check at the bottom of this page and see if you
can
>download drivers that you need.
>
>http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=bph07371
>
>The reason you probably won't find this board on the ASUS website is that it was
>an OEM for HP and wasn't sold OTC by Asus.
>
>There is a mistake on the specs page as it lists the processor brand as Intel when
>it should have been AMD. A big goof on their part..
>
>The board was shipped with XP preinstalled on the computer that the board would
have
>been in. As such, you may not find drivers for Win 98. Only if HP had support
for
>Win 98 will they have drivers on their website for it.
>
>That board hasn't been made for at least 4 years, so what you have is a refurb or
>a new old stock. Either is possible, but more of them are reurbished boards, and
>many of them still have problems that show up after a while in my experience.
>
>Will be interesting what the shop has to say about it.
>
>In addition, if it has more then 512 meg of RAM, that is a problem without a change
>in the VCache in the INI settings. A HDD size over 128 gig will be a problem even
>if it is partitioned smaller for running Win 9X. Also a speed limit of 2.2 gig
is
>in there for the CPU but you are below that. I don't remember if there was an update
>for that limitation or not.
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q253912&LN=EN-US
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